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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024bald•ing /ˈbɔldɪŋ/USA pronunciation adj. - becoming bald.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: balding /ˈbɔːldɪŋ/ adj - somewhat bald or becoming bald
bald /bɔld/USA pronunciation adj., -er, -est. - having little or no hair on the head.
- [before a noun] without ornament;
blunt: a bald lie.
bald•ly, adv. bald•ness, n. [uncountable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024bald (bôld),USA pronunciation adj. - having little or no hair on the scalp:a bald head; a bald person.
- destitute of some natural growth or covering:a bald mountain.
- lacking detail;
bare;
plain;
unadorned:a bald prose style. - open;
undisguised:a bald lie. - Zoologyhaving white on the head:the bald eagle.
- Automotive(of a tire) having the tread completely worn away.
v.i. - to become bald.
n. - Dialect Terms(often cap.) [Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.]a treeless mountaintop or area near the top: often used as part of a proper name.
- Middle English ball(e)d, equivalent. to ball white spot (compare Welsh bal, Greek phaliós having a white spot) + -ed -ed3 1250–1300
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged bare, barefaced, flagrant, patent, utter, out-and-out, downright, flat-out.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: bald /bɔːld/ adj - having no hair or fur, esp (of a man) having no hair on all or most of the scalp
- lacking natural growth or covering
- plain or blunt: a bald statement
- bare or simple; unadorned
- Also: baldfaced (of certain birds and other animals) having white markings on the head and face
- (of a tyre) having a worn tread
Etymology: 14th Century ballede (literally: having a white spot); related to Danish bǣldet, Greek phalaros having a white spotˈbaldish adj ˈbaldly adv ˈbaldness n |